"A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes."
-Ludwig Wittgenstein
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"Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.“
-Ludwig Wittgenstein
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